Coughran v. Bigelow’s Empirical Analysis
164 U.S. 301 · 1896
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. (1986), Brady v. Southern Railway Co. (1943)
65 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. · Pleasants v. Fant · Castle v. Bullard · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of Columbia v. Peter Hagner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor are judges any longer required to submit a question to a jury merely because some evidence has been introduced by the party having the burden of proof, unless the evidence be of such a character that it would warrant the jury in finding a verdict in favor of that party. Formerly it was held that if there was what is called a scintilla of evidence in support of a case the judge was bound to leave it to the jury, but recent decisions of high authority have established a more reasonable rule, that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury could properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.